X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns

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• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Excellent”, responds Musk to himself.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Musk looks at Facebook and Nextdoor… “WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1!”

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never heard of Nextdoor. What is that?

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nextdoor? Is misinformation really being spread on a physical community app? “We had a package thief last week. I know they’re tied to Hunter Biden and the Democrats! MAGA 2024!!!”

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, someone needs to engage with the bots on that platform and he’s certainly not going to pay someone else to do it.

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  • Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Strokes cat and maniacally proclaims … . 43 BILLION dollars!

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• seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is the crispest Pikachu face I have ever seen.

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    • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Crispachu

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  • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s some high res looking pikachu, i stole it.

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  • EternalNicodemus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Crispy Pikachu

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• ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fine the fuckers till the fuckers ain’t fine.

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  • salvador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The collective West will fuck itself until isn’t fine? I won’t mind.

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• zcd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  By design

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• giacomo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter has always been the platform of smooth brains. It’s not surprising it is all full of shit.

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  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twitter could be a very different experience depending on who you followed. That’s not the case anymore.

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  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched a recent clip of Musk from the Rogan podcast. He was asked if regrets buying it. He felt it was his duty in a way as it was run by extreme left wing types that banned everything from less extreme left wing through the center to the far right. Musk said they were censoring a lot of right wing views. He said when you are that far left anything including regular left is too far right for moderation.

    It seems like they have abandoned most moderation now expect for the things he doesn’t like. It’s not free speech for all like they claim.

    I’m fine with him moderating his social media platform the way he likes since he bought it, but don’t claim its totally free speech and then do what he has been doing. I’m not a fan of the misinformation being shared there either but I don’t expect them to be as good of a resource for open and free information anyways. There’s plenty of other places for that, which are not governed by social media reaction metrics.

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• Vant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just cut Russia off from the global internet at this point. Cut all the undersea and underground cables, change the passwords on the satellites, cut them off anyway you can. Yeah, it’s sad for the decent people who have to live in that hellhole, but at this point I just don’t care.

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their troll farms were in Lithuania and Ukraine, and I’m not sure where they are now.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they can’t contact their troll farms, they won’t be able to give new orders.

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  • nothingness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With Russia off the internet, who will Europe and US will be blaming then for everything? Themselves perhaps.

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Found one

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• einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  noncredible take: musk is a us gov sock puppet and if x is like this then its because that allowes 3 letter agencys to lure certein ppl in security to speak so they can be tracked better.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This would be plausible if there weren’t so many examples of the FBI utterly failing to pick up on strings of red flags on social media.

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    • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      u saying there isnt the all seeing eye of the 3 letter agencys on everone online?

      we may be biassed cause we only hear about those who slip thru the cracks

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t forget people discussing the virtues of Nazism openly!

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then stop using it? 😅 Promote your own instance and delete every EU government account on Twitter. Cowards.

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• clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Every X user: Yeah you tell em! Huh? Me? No I use the good parts.

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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to type and your Enter key transforms into a Fake News key?

  !veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s better than reaching for a semicolon and typing a russian flag again

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• rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the article ends in the author’s Follow me on Twitter.

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• callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This just in: Apparently, Lemmy was not included in the evaluation. lmao

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  • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trying to correct misinformation on Lemmy be like:

    I think most people prefer their own bubble over the harsh reality.

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• rivermonster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Being a threat to national security, this company should just be dissolved and its owner put in GITMO.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really? Are we sure it’s not our government?

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FYI: x.org I mean x.com is blocked in Russia by roscomnadzor. Here’s to-fuck-list:

  1. Putin
  2. Musk
  3. Spez

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• salvador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The information that reveals the ugliness and hypocrasy of Europe and US always gets called misinformation

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  • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great mindless edgy soundbite, but this is patently false if given any type of thought.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are correct but we’re talking about the much larger circle on this Venn diagram of any kind of misinformation.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  EU is slowly replacing the role of NATO, as the entity that does so much finger waging and then roll over.

  Stop with the warnings and just push for fines or blocks.

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  • min0nim@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weird take, what’s your beef? They most certainly do slap on huge fines, and are much more aggressive about enforcing privacy requirements than the US/etal.

    This is kinda like cursing the worlds fastest sprinter for just not running fast enough.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ukraine is proof that NATO isn’t pointless. Zero chance Ukraine would’ve been invaded had they been part of NATO.

    And the EU issues loads of fines lmao. I’m struggling to think of anywhere else more happy to issue fines to large entities.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing “voluntarily leaving” and the perpetrator “a reliable partner” sanctioning which “would be counterproductive yet”. So maybe addressing that is more important.

  And if it’s not for somebody, then I’m sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).

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• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Duh

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• Albinjose7345@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think fake newses are not a platforms fault. It’s the fault of the users who spread all those fake info.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any platform gets users who spread fake info.

    It is the platforms job to do something about it. Or face being shut down by entities like the EU.

    Because we as a society shouldn’t have to deal with people who knowingly do such things.

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    • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen some pretty egregious false info on lemmy. What now?

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• sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If Elon Musk was German or French they wouldn’t say a single word.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On the contrary. He would have felt the pain of the law from day one. Nearly everything about him that was in the news: the way he treated employees, the ways he kicked them out, the neglect in tackling hate speech - anthing of that would have led to serious time in court. At least the last will lead to expensive penalties, that’s why Musk gets warnings and final warnings now. The law requires that he gets warned before he gets fined, and EU fines are hefty.

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    • sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They would be happy to have him in the EU and the regulatory approach would be much more light touch. Him being an American means that they believe they have free range for the most stringent interpretations and harshest punishments.

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  • donescobar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes saying the dumb take out loud doesn’t pan out fyi

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, he’s Danish

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Am I missing a reference here or are you just slandering my country for no reason? 🤨

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s South African. He might eat a danish…

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    • sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elon Musksen from Copenhagen

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• nothingness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The source of misinformation pointing finger to other souces as misinformation.

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• tswerts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When Twitter was Twitter the same concerns were outed. Now X is Twitter minus 80% of its employees. From an economic standpoint it seems that investing in moderation doesn’t give you less concerns and complaints from the outside regarding disinformation, more extreme content, … . The advertisers have the most impact, I think. Together with the users that will look for an alternative.

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• CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Biggest so far!

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